| Year | 1957 |
| Date | 11-Jul |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue | 2,929 |
| Page | 56 |
| Category | Locomotive |
| Part | |
| Title | Ancient History |
| Author | LBSC |
| Notes | Last century designs and instructions. Tasks for schoolboys, labour in vain, an impracticable boiler design, backwards only! The Alexander locomotive boiler, real instructions, mechanically impossible link motion, the Pocock locomotives, enter J.A.Alexander, tailstock problem, low working pressure |